When you are under stress your body, your heart and your breathing go up. Your muscles get tensed and you are on high alert ready to take action if something was to happen. This is how it’s supposed to be, when you are in danger you can act very quickly and take action. The problems start to come when the stress you feel is chronic, or you can’t let it out.

Yes, stress can cause hemorrhoids to flare up or to develop, not in a straight way but if you feel stressed for a long period of time it can have a bad impact on your digestive system and that can lead to hemorrhoids. Stress is also a main factor of insomnia and if you do not sleep well at night then your digestive system also will take a hit that which can lead to hemorrhoids too.

If you are dealing with stress I can recommend this pdf book that’s going to calm your busy mind, eliminate negative thoughts and fears, induce a relaxation response and let go of worrying over past or future events. Watch this and see how it can help you get a more quality and relaxed life.

If you got hemorrhoids from stress already I can recommend you getting this 5-step method to treat your hemorrhoids. Watch the video and see how it can change your life for the better.

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What Are Hemorrhoids?

About 75% of all Americans will have hemorrhoids at some point in their life, so you are certainly not alone with this issue. Hemorrhoids are swollen veins in your anus and lower rectum. Hemorrhoids can develop inside (internal) the rectum or under the skin around your anus (external). The term hemorrhoid is a blood vessel that is inflamed on or near the anus. This may have been caused by long periods of straining and pushing when going to the toilet. The first signs of hemorrhoids are a pain when going to the toilet, the pain can be extreme or severe depending on how severe the hemorrhoid is.

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Stress And How The Body Respond

These days there is a lot of stress in our lives, ranging from family issues to work and finance issues that stays on our mind all the time. Stress can have a negative effect on hemorrhoids and the development of hemorrhoids.

Stress many times leads to digestive problems and if the digestive problems will no go away for a long period of time this can cause diarrhea or constipation and that is two of the main causes for hemorrhoids. Stress can lead to either an overactive stomach, which will result in diarrhea and stomach cramps. Again an inactive stomach can lead to constipation and the feeling that you have gas in your stomach.

When feeling stressed many times we tend to lean to more bad alternatives when it comes to eating and choosing our diet and poor or processed food is likely to develop constipation.

Not only your stomach will take a hit when you feel stressed, as it goes on in time your sleep will also be affected by the stress, you wake up many times at night and not really get the deep sleep everybody needs for the body to recover under the night.

To learn more about constipation please go to this article!

People With Risk Of Developing Hemorrhoids

People that have low fiber diets have more likeliness to develop hemorrhoids. Diets rich in fiber play an important role in having every day going to the toilet.

Those that have works that involve high-stress factor is at the risk of getting hemorrhoids, also not having the time to sit down and have a healthy lunch every day puts you in the risk zone of getting piles or hemorrhoids.

Women that have given birth are also in the risk zone of getting hemorrhoids, especially right after the birth. This is because the pushing at the actual birth very much is the same as when straining during a bowel movement. If not taken care of the hemorrhoids can grow and get more inflamed.

People who are overweight and obese are much more likely to get hemorrhoids.

How To Treat Hemorrhoids

If stress is the factor that triggered hemorrhoids the first step is to reduce the stress in your life, if the stress is income or family-related this can be harder to do as it usually takes time to change these things. After you have reduced stress it’s time to take care of the hemorrhoids, this can be done by changing your diet and your lifestyle. Simply start eating more vegetables and drink more water. Go check out this article, how to cure hemorrhoids at home fast, for more info!

How to relieve stress

There are a number of ways how you can relieve stress in your life, especially if it’s making you angry and frustrated, or irritable. This does not take much time to implement in your day of life.

Sleep good, often if you feel stressed your sleep is suffering and if your sleep is suffering you get irritable and frustrated. When you sleep is when your body is recharging your battery’s, if you not get enough sleep you will simply not have the power to get thru the day.

Laugh, they say, a good laugh prolongs your life, and it’s basically true. A good and healthy laugh lightens your mental load and cools down your stress. Even if you have to fake laughing you will after a while really start laughing.

Go up and get active, really any form of activity, whether it’s walking, jogging, lifting weights, gardening, house cleaning, biking, or swimming it will lift your mood up and reduce your stress level. If you have a dog just go out and walk the dog, having a dog alone will reduce the stress levels for you.

Remember to say No, you can’t help everybody. If you try to help everybody that asks you for help you soon will not have any time for yourself or your family and stress slowly starts to take control of your life. This goes especially for work, if you feel it starts to be too much you need to say no.

Listening to music or playing music is good for stress because it switches your mind away from the stress and the things you must do or think you must do.

Self-Help, listening to tapes about reducing stress and how to manage stress is another way and can be a more long-term solution for your stress. These can be found on youtube for example. This way does not take much time too as you can listen in your car or on your daily run.

Writing down how you feel can have a very good impact on your stress too. Don’t worry about what to write, just write what comes to your mind and you don’t need to show it to anyone.

Yoga is also a great stress reliever, with its controlled breathing and physical and mental disciplines that help you control your mind and stress. The easiest way to start yoga is to go on youtube and search for yoga classes and then do them in your own home. If you feel you need friends and others around you look for yoga classes in your community.

Meditation or visualization is a great stress reliever also, you can simply close your eyes and visualize you are calm and happy and gradually you will become that too. Try to do a mental picture of your self how you are when you are relaxed and feeling good about yourself and without any stress at all.

Final Thoughts

We all have stress, more or less, in our daily life, the thing is to learn to handle the stress so it does not take overhand with us. Hemorrhoid is not the only illness that stress can cause, in fact, stress is the cause of many of our problems in society today. So it’s important that we learn to see the signs of stress and more importantly how we can handle stress in our lives.

The above advice on how to handle stress is just a few examples of how we can help ourselves with stress, these advice are not written in stone, they are just examples for you to start using and implementing little by little in your life.

After you used these for some time you will find your own ways to reduce stress and how to cope with life.